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29 March in Saint-Malo – 29 mars à Saint-Malo

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Au Panier d'Italie, brittany ferries, catholic relief, condor ferries, france, Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan, secours catholique

Today is Tuesday March 29 2016.  Sandy purchased a croissant and baguette for breakfast.

After breakfast Sandy shopped at the Intra-Muros marche.  “Our” vegetable / fruit seller was there and Sandy purchased strawberries, navel oranges, pears, carrots, cherry tomatoes, a sweet potato, and some tiny new golden potatoes.

We walked to the bus stop at St. Vincent’s gate and took bus #1 to the Maupertuis stop.  From here we walked 10 minutes (almost all up hill) to shop at the Secours Catholique (Catholic Relief) thrift shop.  Sandy bought a night-gown, two pairs of socks and a washing mitt which is like a wash cloth for your hand to fit into.  She watches the price signs on items as she shops to help her with French numbers. She thought she was spending around 3 – 4 euros.  As she was checking out, the sales lady told her the price was “quatre-vingt-dix “.  All Sandy heard was the “quatre” or four because the night-gown was at least one euro.  She was mistaken as the price for all four items was 90 (quatre-vingt-dix or 4 twenties and ten) centimes / cents.  Apparently the lady reduced the price on all  items to 20 centimes / cents each. So Sandy got some very good buys.

We walked to Saint-Servan to take the bus back and decided it was such a nice sunny day, around 50 F or 10 C, that we’d walk back.

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Au Panier d’Italie

On the way, we stopped in at the Au Panier d’Italie (In the basket of Italy) an Italian take way shop. We purchased lasagna, bolognese sauce, and vegetable gratin to enjoy for dinner.

On our walk back to the apartment we had to cross the

in the lock / recluse

in the lock / recluse

bridge over the lock / ecluse. When we reached the bridge, we could hear the alarm and see that the bridge was

open.  We watched 5 ships come into the basin and two more went into the lock / ecluse to enter the harbor.

As we got closer to the Port Dinan to enter the Intra-Muros, we saw that the Brittany Ferry was pulling away from it’s dock.  As the Brittany Ferry was leaving the dock,  the Condor Ferry was arriving at the dock.

Condor Ferry

Condor Ferry

Brittany Ferry

Brittany Ferry

 

Mornings are usually more interesting in the harbor!

The Italian food from the Au Panier d’Italie made a wonderful dinner.

All our pictures for March in Saint-Malo France can be viewed at 2016-03 March in Saint-Malo on Flickr.  They will open in a separate window.

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22 March in Saint-Malo – 22 mars à Saint-Malo

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

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4 saisons, carrefour hypermarche, catholic relief, chez marcel, france, Saint-Malo

Today is Tuesday March 22.  We are expecting our usual vegetable/fruit seller to be back in the local market.  This market is very small but does have a butcher, 2 veg/fruit sellers, a flower seller, and a local artist with his pictures. The market is only 30 steps from our building door. But we must have misunderstood, for he was still on vacation today.  So off we went in the other direction, 50 steps to the 4 Saisons (seasons) vegetable / fruit store.  We bought Batavia lettuce, pears, oranges and strawberries.  Back to the apartment.

After lunch our plan is to take the bus to the Catholic Relief clothing resale shop and then to the Carrefour hypermarche for some canned goods.

At the clothing shop Sandy purchased a belt and a hot pot holder. I got a new winter knit cap to replace the one I lost in the storm on March 9.  Total spent 1.5€.

We walked to Saint-Servan to get the bus to Carrefour.  At Carrefour we did most of our shopping but missed a couple of things on the list.

Back in the Intra-Muros we stopped at the local butcher, but he was closed.  There was a note on the door explaining how extenuating circumstances caused him to be closed this afternoon.  So, back to the apartment for the rest of the afternoon.  The decision has been made for us, eat out tonight.

At about 19:30 we headed out to CHEZ MARCEL.  Chez Marcel is a very small restaurant, 3 tables seating 12 people.  Their speciality is a kebab with lamb, onions, lettuce and tomatoes with a white herb sauce.  This is accompanied by fries.  It was very good and inexpensive, 15€ for the two of us.

lamb kebab, fries and sauce

lamb kebab, fries and sauce

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Chez Marcel

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Chez Marcel

 

 

 

 

 

All our pictures for March in Saint-Malo France can be viewed at 2016-03 March in Saint-Malo on Flickr.  They will open in a separate window.

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